Judge tells Texas Attorney General to stay out of trans lawsuit. No one wants him there

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R)
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A Texas judge in Dallas County has ruled that the state’s transphobic Attorney General Ken Paxton can’t intervene in a lawsuit that would help transgender youth obtain gender-affirming care from a city children’s hospital.

The judge’s decision marks the latest legal defeat in Paxton’s repeated attempts to score political points by attacking queer kids. Paxton’s office has repeatedly claimed — without legal support and against the mainstream medical recommendations — that gender-affirming care is a form of “child abuse.”

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Dallas County Judge Melissa Bellan decided last Friday that Paxton hadn’t convinced her of the state’s right to weigh in on an agreement between Children’s Medical Center Dallas and Dr. Ximena Lopez. Lopez sued the hospital in March, saying that the hospital violated…

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